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January 17, 2010

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The overwhelming conventional wisdom in both parties until a Rasmussen poll showed the race in single digits in early January was that Martha Coakley was a lock. (It's hard to recall a single poll changing the mood of a race quite that dramatically.)

But it also seems worth giving credit to those -- other than Brown himself -- who were making the case early on that he had a chance. The Red Mass Group's Paul Breau started pushing the notion on December 9. Bill Kristol mused on the subject December 22. Howie Carr argued on Christmas that Brown should run against health care. Patrick Ruffini, who is also consulting the campaign, made the case in a widely circulated post December 30.

Some of Brown's supporters in late December, frustrated by the absence of a public poll, produced their own poll -- by calling numbers at random out of the Cape Cod phone book -- to make the case that Brown was, in fact, winning at the time.

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On MSNBC tonight their special was suppose to be on Haiti but he broke away for other information and interviewed an individual talking about what Limbaugh and others had said about the Haiti work and the individual he was interviewing said, "these radicalized right wing extremist....." speaking about the conservative talk show host and as he called them the teabaggers. Yes conservatives have always been demeaned by the media but to be now called "radicalized" equates them with the likes of the Christmas bomber, the Ft. Hood person and other terrorist. I believe this has taken commentary and being a pundit to the extreme can you at least take a stand against this or investigate why this type of talk can be tolerated when remember Pelosi was scared by the tone of the conservatives talk. To call a conservative "radicalized" in my opinion has never been done before except now it is on the eve of the Kennedy seat election and they are resorting to scare tactics.

The Obama Administration has developed political cataracts and become tone deaf to the American People to understand what was happing in Massachusetts. Listen to the discussions that are being thrown around in Washington, Congress, and the liberal media and you will understand why the Obama Administration could not see Scott Brown coming. They are radical opinions to ram through Obamacare. First, Reconciliation is a legislative process of the United States Senate intended to allow a contentious budget bill to be considered without being subject to filibuster. Because reconciliation limits debate and amendment, the process empowers the majority party. Reconciliation is for ”Budget Bills” not for Obamacare, and the ONLY reason they would accept the monstrosity results of bill after it goes through Reconciliation because all that is required is a simple majority of 51 vote. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would pass this bill and spend the rest of Obama’s Presidency correcting the monstrosity at a cost billions of dollars and Taxpayers’ expense. Second, frivolous law suits will be filed to challenge the Special Election and delay the certification of the election long enough so that the House and Senate to agree on a bill and vote to pass it. Third, influence the Massachusetts Governor to delay the certification of the election long enough for the House and Senate to agree on a bill and vote to pass it. Some may say that the Governor of Massachusetts would not do such a thing, but that level of influence by the Administration has already occurred. Paul Kirk is the appointed interim successor for the late Ted Kennedy in the Senate, why? The Law prior to that appointment was that a Special Election will be held to fill any Senatorial vacancy. The law did not allow the Governor to appoint an interim successor. The Governor of Massachusetts made a request from the Massachusetts’ legislature to change the law. So they did, and thus Paul Kirk became the appointed interim successor for the late Ted Kennedy in the Senate. It was the late Ted Kennedy that originally led the charge to ensure that a Republican Governor, Mitt Romney, could not elect and interim successor, but when Ted Kennedy past away, the law was changed so that Governor Deval Patrick could appoint Paul Kirk as the interim successor and give President Obama his 60th vote, but another Democrat double standard. There is a fusion of Republicans and Independent voters’ occurring. It was evident in the Gubernatorial Election in Virginia and New Jersey, but now so very prominent in the Special Election in one of the bluest of states, Massachusetts, where Scott Brown out polls Martha Coakley among independents 58 to 37 percent. It is a seismic shift of monumental proportions, a Fusion Bomb that has occurred in just 15 months of the Obama Presidency. If the Obama Administration does not move to the center like Bill Clinton did he will be caught in the shock wave and Democrats will suffer the fallout in the 2010 mid-term elections.

This video should be all over the air-waves in Massachusetts. The second shot heard around the world will inspire all that watch it. The Second Tea Party is at hand. Make it happen, elect Scott Brown:
http://www.breitbart.tv/massachusetts-miracle-video-sets-stakes-for-tuesdays-election/

martha "the couchie mama" coakley still 3 points away but it's scott "the centerfold" brown everywhere. this is a referendum re the health care reform, ted "the drunkard" kennedy, and in every election as always, the bias media who can never be red.

typical liberal, they underestimating the terrorists, they overestimating their own party candidates, they over- or underestimate in one way or another. That's not what this country needs in Washington. Just like leaves in the wind.